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Off-topic contributions will be considered reason for immediate removal of the content (by the administrative team using an appropriate mechanism such as rolling back the content or deleting the page) and banning the user creating that content.
=== Titles ===
Pages that are the titles of tasks (and draft tasks) should always have the first letter in their name capitalized (this might even be enforced by Media Wiki) and other words should not be capitalized ''except'' if they are [[wp:Proper noun|proper nouns]] or abbreviations, which should ''always'' be capitalized. Thus, “[[Start from a main routine]]” (only the first letter is capitalized), “[[Conway's Game of Life]]” (“Game of Life” is capitalized that way on Wikipedia, and “Conway” would be as well, but that's capitalized because of the first letter rule) and “[[URL encoding]]” (“URL” is an abbreviation). Where an abbreviation is done in a non-standard way by convention, the correct form (that is, the form used by the people who originally defined it) should be used.
Language and library pages should use the name of the language/library as their name (but [[#Profanity|see below]] also).
Other pages ought to also conform to these rules, but enforcement might not be as rapid there. (The [[Rosetta Code:Village Pump|Village Pump]] is always capitalized like that.)
== Respectful Editing ==
Deletion of content (especially of “unrelated” content) other than for reasons linked with the above policies ''will'' result in a suitable page rollback and ''may'' result in a ban. Typically, first bans for such activity will be for short periods of time to allow the administrative team to contact the user and ask them to be respectful of others' contributions. Repeated and/or willful disrespectful edits will lead to extended bans.
Substantive edits of a user page should not normally be done (correcting a broken link or template would typically not be considered substantive). Note that user pages ''created for the purpose of spamming'' are exempted from this. Other users are encouraged to flag such spam pages for deletion by administrators with a
== Other Matters ==
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By contributing, you agree to allow the contribution to be distributed under the GFDL and that you are permitted to allow that. You may use the contributions of others under the terms of that license. (Note that you can use ''your own'' contributions elsewhere as you see fit; granting a license to RC and its readers does not change that.) You do not have the right to have nobody ever edit your contributions; this is a wiki, not your private blog or local source repository.
===Profanity===
We aim to have the site accessible by schools and colleges, some of which have automatic monitors which may ban pages or sites with profanity so profanity should be avoided. Our policy on the [[Brainf***|Brainf*!k]] language for example is to never use its name in full. (Yes, there is an esoteric programming language with that name.)
===Tone===
If you can't be friendly, at least be civil. Community matters!
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